People
- Pyrrhus (318 BC-272 BC) general and king of Epirus
- Epicrates of Ambracia, 4th BC comic poet
- Silanus of Ambracia
- Epigonus of Ambracia 6th-5th BC musician
- Georgios Karaiskakis Years of service 1796 - 1827 Rank - General, Battles/wars Greek War of Independence
- Maximus the Greek (c. 1475-1556) publicist, writer, scholar, humanist and translator
- Napoleon Zervas (1891–1957)
- Theodoros Tzinis
- Nikolaos Skoufas
- Yannis Makriyannis
- Kostas Kristallis poet
- Yiannis Moralis (1916) painter
- Antonios Nikopolidis (1971) footballer
- Yannis Anastasiou (1973) footballer
- Nikos Rizos (1924 - April 20, 1999), actor
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